Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 23:51:00 +0200 From: "Philip S. Schulz" <ph.schulz@gmx.de> To: grehan@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with the loader Message-ID: <44D512C4.10402@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <44D50BC2.60704@freebsd.org> References: <44D4F975.2030608@gmx.de> <44D50BC2.60704@freebsd.org>
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on 05.08.2006 23:21 Uhr Peter Grehan said the following: > Hi Philip, > >> 1. Hold down 'C' while booting: I can hear the CD spin up, it seems >> like there is disk activity but then the drive spins down again and >> Mac OS X is started. > > Hmmm, that one's supposed to work. I even tried this out on the same > model Powerbook, but a 15", the other day. > > One big advantage of these models is that the internal keyboard/mouse > are USB so will work without an external keyboard. > Well, maybe the 12" and 15" models are different. The internal keyboard doesn't seem to work. >> 2. At the Open Firmware prompt, type "boot cd:,\boot\loader": The >> loader starts, but says: "can't load 'kernel'" and then "no bootable >> kernel" > > Close ! :) > > For a manual load from the cd, you have to pass 'cd:0' as an additional > parameter e.g. > > boot cd:,\boot\loader cd:0 > That worked. Thanks! I should mention though that I got the "boot cd:, ..." line from http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/install.html :-) [...] >> 4. Also I have tried to copy boot/ from the CD to the internal >> harddisk an boot from there by saying "boot hd:,\boot\loader" at the >> Open Firmware prompt. Same effect as in 2. > > Makes sense: the loader will use the volume it was booted from to try > and load the kernel. Since 'hd:' is most likely HFS+ formatted, the > loader won't be able to read it. > Right, it is HFS+. Thanks again, Phil. -- Don't fix it if it ain't broke.
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